Students train in mushrooom cultivation
More than 200 students of the Jagnaya National High School in Jamindan, Capiz attended a training in mushroom cultivation under Eduardo Navarra of the Capiz Extension Institute at the school’s Supetran Hall on September 25, a press release from Capiz State University said.
The students represented the town’s barangays of Jagnaya, Sto. Rosario, La Paz, Caidquid, Esperanza, San Jose, Caridad, Bunga and Barrio Fe.
Navarra, the Techno Gabay Team leader of Farmers Information and Technology Services Center based in Capiz State University Mambusao Campus,
lectured on the advantages of growing straw mushrooms (Volvariella species), materials needed and steps to take in its proper cultivation.
Bella Ignacio, a Home Economics teacher, said she will monitor the students on how they will apply their learnings from the lecture-workshop.
Technology and Livelihood Education teacher Rolando Llamel committed to integrate his classes with Ignacio’s.
Both teachers said they will conduct follow-through activities and set up a monitoring scheme before the semestral break in October.
The extension initiative was held during the JNHS Science and Technology Week.*
